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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.
Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.
When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.